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Anatoli Kirpouiki; Ioannis Agaliotis – British Journal of Special Education, 2025
We examined the efficacy of two interventions aiming to strengthen argumentative text comprehension in Greek secondary students with specific reading disability or low reading achievement of unspecified cause. The first intervention (control group, n = 29) was based on principles of systematic explicit instruction, whereas in the second one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Intervention, Persuasive Discourse
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Parrila, Rauno; Simos, Panagiotis G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The concept of Matthew effects in reading development refers to a longitudinally widening gap between high achievers and low achievers. Various statistical approaches have been proposed to examine this idea. However, little attention has been paid to psychometric issues of scaling. Specifically, interval-level data are required to compare…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, Longitudinal Studies